THE REAL ARGENTINE

WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR

  • Stevensoniana.
  • In the Track of “R. L. S.” and elsewhere in Old France.
  • George Meredith in Anecdote and Criticism.
  • J. M. Barrie and his Books.
  • Our Highland Tour.
  • The Call of the Town.
  • The Actor’s Art.
  • Humorists of the Pencil.
  • English Humorists of To-day.

Editor of

  • Harmsworth History of the World.
  • The World’s Great Books.
  • The Charles Dickens Library.
  • The Fine Art Scott.
  • “Punch” Library of Humor.
  • etc., etc., etc.

A Vanishing Figure

A “Gaucho” in full costume, wearing the “chiripá,” or loose over-trousers,and carrying the “bolas” around his waist.

Frontispiece.

THE REAL ARGENTINE

Notes and Impressions of a Year
in the Argentine and Uruguay

By
J. A. HAMMERTON

With Numerous Illustrations

NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1915

Copyright, 1915
By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY

CONTENTS

PAGE
CHAPTER I
From London to Lisbon1
CHAPTER II
Our Voyage to the River Plate7
CHAPTER III
First Impressions of Buenos Ayres28
CHAPTER IV
Pictures of Street Life in Buenos Ayres38
CHAPTER V
More Scenes from the Streets of Buenos Ayres56
CHAPTER VI
What We Thought of the Weather and the Mosquitoes73
CHAPTER VII
A Splendid City of Sham83
CHAPTER VIII
Some “Paseos” in Buenos Ayres...

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